, 1887-03-03
Ready for the Grand Opening
Tuesday, March LIST.
One Of the Most Complete Hotels
in the Territory.
A Hasty Description Of the New
and Promising Enterprise.

Next Tuesday the new Arlington
hotel will throw open It's doors to
the public. The event Is one Of more
significance than the casual observer
wodld imagine. 1t means the sup.
plying of more hotel facilities of u
better class, something that the city
has been sadly deficient in for years.
II there is any one thing more than
another that reflects credit or dis
credit upon place 1t is the character
and extent of its hotel accommoda-
tions. a town can show evidence OF
the most phenomenal growth and
enterprise. and yet II the stranger,
accustomed to superior class of
hotels, finds that he Is compelled to
put up with poor and crude accom-
he goes away with
mad impression of tho place which
tine most glowing accounts of the
future Of the town that he may hear
.uf afterwards does not entirely Grad
irate. spokane Falls has always
been troubled by limited hotel facili.
tjss. Ono hotel has been called upon
10 fill most of the requirements of the
city. Large though 1t is 1t has al
ways been Inadequate to meet the
demand. It has been common
sight day after day to see people
diminishing around the town look
ing for lodgings. The excessive
poverty in rooms has been so great
as to at times work hardship upon
the travelling public. During the
J,ast four years there have been in
Vulnerable schemes set on foot for
the building OF modern hotel iu
this city. Hardly month passed
but what the papers made
note of some strangers In the
city looking around with an idea
OF going into the hotel business, but
Ihe news would never materlize into
fny tangible shape. So the city
grew, demands for accommodations
increased each day. fine blocks and
handsome homes were under way,
a spirit of progress manifested itself
on every hand and yet the new ho-
tel 50 necessary to fill a long felt
want failed to appear. That there
was an opening for a modern hotel
conducted by the right parties has
always been SO apparent that the
wonder has continually been ex-
pressed that some one converSant
With the business had not seized the
opportunity, but no one showed a
disposition to catch on, the travelling
public continued to visit the Falls
with a longing dread Of a failure to
secure Il room wherein to store away
their carcasses, and the regular peri
odical promise of new caravansary
was held out. 1t began to look as
though the city would be compelled
10 make shift with the hotels in
sight when q couple of enterprising
gentlemen stepped into the breach
and announced theiC intentions to
supply the deficiency. The an
nonncement was made public last
spring and the parties who proposed
TO invest their means In an enter
prise Of this description were Del. S.
Lashier and Samuel T. Arthur. The
former gentleman had never been
directly connected with hotel, but |
he IS q man of sterling business |
qualifications, with large expert
ence with men Of the world, with a !
taste that runs to everything of the
very best, and consequently will
succeed admirably In catering to the
demands Of the exacting travelling
public. The latter gentleman, Mr..
Arthur, has graduated in the hotel
business, his experience running
back over many years, and Is In
d dalihed for conducting an estab-
lishnient of the size and character
that has grown into existence under
The watchful eyes of the firm. But
we digress. When Messrs. Lashier
& Arthur decided to build they were
met with the most discouraging OBJ
,tacles in securing the property they
iecired to cover with their hotel
building, and even when they
tarted in they were compelled to
atlsfy themselves with u piece of (
and 4OxsO, when they would have
loubled the size of the building {
.ad they had the ground
non which to have worked.
iowever, determining to carry out
heir project after once announcing
neir intentions-as they are not the \
aen 10 brook q failure In any scheme c
pom which they embark-they I
,ar.ed in, and the result Of their
.bo,s is seen In one OF the most h
,ni p,ete and elegant hotels on the t
aafhc coast, and we do not except 9
az city. large or small. The build. b
~ is three stories high with man. q
I'd roof, containing nicely furn. d
he'd and comfortable rooms, with
the full size Of the ground d
al of the structure. The edi6ce Is c.
brick, substantially constructed b
modern plans, intended to be u
and when that part Of the b.